Byera Hadleya biographyA biography of Byera Hadley, originally authored by Michael Bogle to mark the 60th anniversary of the Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarships

The Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarships have

been awarded annually since 1951, funded from

a bequest from Byera Hadley, formerly a Sydney

architect and Lecturer-in-Charge, School of Archi-

tecture at Sydney Technical College. Byera Hadley,

who died in 1937, provided in his will for the estab-

lishment of the Byera Hadley Travelling Scholar-

ship Fund. The bequest required that the income

from the Trust be applied in perpetuity for the

“promotion and encouragement of students and/

or graduates of architecture”. The NSW Architects

Registration Board manages the Scholarships. The

funds are held in Trust by Perpetual. This essay on

Byera Hadley was originally commissioned by the

NSW Architects Registration Board to celebrate

the 60th anniversary of the award of the first Byera

Hadley Travelling Scholarship. The Board acknowl-

edged the important research of Michael Bogle,

PhD (RMIT) - a historian specialising in the history

of Australian architecture and design.

Cover image:

Original cover art by Hugh Maclean

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Contents

Introduction

Early career

Personal life

Teaching

B.Hadley, Architect

Legacy

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Introduction

Byera Hadley’s career as an architect and teacher has received much less attention than his bequest. While the Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship enjoys the benefit of a well-publi-cised annual reminder, his buildings remain mute and for the most part, unlisted in the suburban LGA Herit-age Schedules. J.M. Freeland’s land-mark survey works, “Architecture in Australia and The Making of a Pro-fession” offer Hadley no comfort de-spite the architect’s two town halls, a number of multi-storey city ware-houses, Sydney University’s origi-nal Wesley College and chapel, the Leigh College building and a number of significant suburban churches. [He was] of a retiring nature,” a friend

recalls, “he was not easy to know in-timately, but his qualities of sincerity and uprightness were obvious to all who came in contact with him. Those who knew him intimately always ben-efited greatly by his advice …”.[3] The architectural press of the era illus-trates that he did very little self-pro-motion, preferring to remain a sole practice as “B. Hadley, Architect” and to lecture and later to lead the archi-tecture programme at the Sydney Technical College. In a jostling field of talented Sydney Technical Col-lege-trained architects, Hadley was an early 20th century historicist archi-tect who drew on the pattern books for a wide range of revival styles for his urban and suburban commissions.

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His work was competent, contempo-rary and in his residential Arts and Crafts style, occasionally playful. It has failed, however, to draw the acco-lades of his profession.

Australian beginningsByera Hadley (1872-1937) was born in Cotham, North Bristol, Glouces-tershire, into a merchant family and attended a private school in the near-by Bristol suburb of Clifton. Both residential suburbs can be described as “comfortable” with a large stock of 19th century houses and terraces. Byera was the third son of E.A. (Al-exander) Hadley (1855-1929)[4] and Florence (Mary Adeline) Hadley.[5] The precise “merchant” occupation of Alexander Hadley is unknown.

Byera Hadley and his family arrived in Australia in 1887 and soon afterward, he was indentured to A.L. and G. Mc-Credie and Sons, Architects and Con-sulting Engineers in Sydney.

Arthur W. Anderson (1869-1942) was working his indentures at McCredie’s at the same time and he was three years into the five-year architecture programme at Sydney Technical Col-lege (STC). While their studies and indentures coincide, there are other parallels in Hadley’s and Anderson’s careers. Anderson, for example, was a prominent Methodist churchman serving on their Executive Commit-tee and enjoyed a number of major commissions from his church.[6] [7] The Methodist church, perhaps

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His work was competent, contemporary and in his residential Arts and Crafts style, occasionally playful.

through Anderson’s influence, also provided a number of commissions for Byera Hadley. Anderson was also an “Old Boy” from Newington Col-lege, Stanmore, a Methodist-support-ed institution founded in 1863. While Hadley (Church of England) had no direct affiliation with Newington, he later received an important com-mission from Newington College for Leigh College, a Newington residen-tial hall for thirty-seven pupils as well as contracts for several Methodist Halls, churches, interior works and chapels.[8]

A.L. and G. McCredie, Architects and Consulting EngineersThe A.L. [Arthur] and G. [George] McCredie, Architects and Consulting Engineers practice has not been thor-oughly documented but the firm had a number of important commercial clients in the city. Their Romanesque Revival Burns Philp Building (1899-1900) at 5-11 Bridge Street is one of their most celebrated works and their Burns Philp work led to other building works for this Pacific trading company. “George McCredie (1859-1903) […] was educated at Fort Street Public School and left to become an appren-tice carpenter with the Australasian Steam Navigation Company (ASN

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Co.).[…] In 1880 he left the company and traveled overseas in a world trip […]. Following his return to Australia he joined a partnership [1884] with his brother in A.L. (Arthur) & G. Mc-Credie, Architects and Consulting En-gineers.” This partnership lasted until 1904.[9] “McCredie and Sons […] were involved in engineering works for warehouses, factories, stores docks and reclama-tion projects and were responsible for […] [commissions such as Linnwood, Guildford NSW; the George McCredie home; the Oswald Bond Store (1892), Walsh Bay]; […] the 1900 Burns Phil-ip Building in Bridge Street; the 1908 Mark Foy Building (as McCredie and [Arthur] Anderson) […]. The firm was

also responsible for the notable Stud-ley Park villa, Camden (including the House, Stables, Granary and steam engine house).”[10] Hadley would have had direct experience with the Oswald Bond Store and Burns Philp works during his apprenticeship.

Sydney Technical CollegeAlthough Hadley had only arrived in Sydney in 1887, by Australia’s Cen-tennial year, he was enrolled in the Sydney Technical College’s (STC) architecture programme and taking first-year course in Model Drawing (awarded 1st grade) and Freehand Drawing (honours).[11] The first-year awards suggest that he possessed considerable talent in drawing. First-year students took courses in Build-

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Byera Hadley. ca.1907. The Cyclopedia of New South Wales. McCarron, Stewart and Co., 1907

ing and Construction; Planning and Designing and the History of Archi-tecture.

In 1888, Byera’s STC classmates in-cluded Holland Andrews, Guilford Dudley, W. S. Sweet, Thomas Lockley, George Setchell, Frederick Morton Marshall, Walter Hunt, Richard Blake Brigdale, Finlay Elgin Munro and Frank Lee. The sole Honours winner in this year was W. S. Sweet while Second Grade Honours were award-ed to Finlay Elgin Munro, Walter Hunt and Frank Lee. Hadley continued to show accom-plishment in Drawing and Presenta-tion in 1889. He took second-year courses in the History of Architec-

ture (2nd grade mark), Architectural Planning and Design (1st grade mark) and a course in Perspective Drawing (honours).[12]

These second-year STC classes were the first to put Hadley amongst Syd-ney’s more illustrious architects such as James Nangle, L.S. Robertson, J. A. Kethel and Alfred Spain (later a part-ner in Spain and Cosh who built Cul-wulla Chambers, Castlereagh Street) who took Second-year Honours along with F.L. Grace In 1890-91, Hadley also began receiv-ing external awards for his work and finished his year with a STC scholar-ship.[13] The Sydney Morning Herald always kept a close watch on the

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These second-year STC class-es were the first to put Had-ley amongst Sydney’s more illustrious architects

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STC’s activities and they proudly re-ported that “Works of students of the Technical [College] classes are sent annually to [the] South Kensington [Museum, London] for classification by the examiners of the Science and Art Department of Great Britain. Re-turns just received of the results of the examination of the works sent in March last show that a high per-centage of prizes has been gained this year, and that more awards have been given than in any previous year. […]” “Mr. Alfred Spain gained a bronze medal for a design for a town hall. The other students obtaining priz-es are: Architectural Design: Holland Andrews; Joseph A. Kethel [silver

medalist]; two prizes. […] Linear Ge-ometry: James Nangle; W. J. Taylor. Linear Perspective: George Poole. Details of Architecture from Copies: Byera Hadley […]. The works of the following students have been ad-judged by the examiners as worthy of free studentships: Holland An-drews, Joseph Buckley, Byera Hadley, George Harvey, J. A. Kethel, Edward Mueller, Edward Nancarrow, Edward Paton, and Alfred Spain. […].”[14] Byera Hadley’s STC scholarship al-lowed him to undertake two years of college study tuition-free. A number of references have been made about Hadley’s overseas travel, particular-ly to the United States (returning in 1895). This travel cannot be verified

Byera Hadley’s STC scholar-ship allowed him to under-take two years of college study tuition-free.

by the documents found to date but reference is made to “…a trip through the United States” in the 1907 edi-tion of the Cyclopedia of New South Wales.[15]

It was (and remains) common prac-tice in Australian schools of architec-ture to identify and appoint superior students to lecturer and tutorial posi-tions and Hadley’s talents in drawing ensured that he would be identified as a potential recruit. By 1899, Had-ley was working for the STC as “as-sistant lecturer, architectural classes” and that same year, he was elevated to “assistant teacher of Architectural and Trades Drawing”.[16]

With his schoolwork behind him, the comfort of a part-time salary from a STC teaching appointment could supplement his income and support the founding of a practice. By 1897, he was advertising for tenders un-der the name of “B. Hadley, Archi-tect. Camden Buildings, 418 George Street, Sydney.” and making offers to buy a block of land in Park Street.[17]

Based on a search of Sydney Morning Herald notices, it appears his private practice was founded in 1897.[18] Continuing to construct his career, he also became a Fellow of the Institute of Architects NSW in 1899.[19]

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In the late 1890s, Hadley became ac-quainted with Florence Debelle and her six siblings through a friendship with her brother Arthur Debelle; a fel-low drawing student at the Sydney Technical College.[20]

Arthur Debelle was also “stroke” in a number of Hadley’s Mercantile Row-ing Club “Fours” races.[21] Hadley was an active member of the rowing club during this period. A year later, he married Florence De-belle (1871-1945) and they took up residence in Sydney.[24] The couple had two children, Florence who died in infancy (1907-1908) and Byera Al-exander Hadley (b.1903), sometimes known as Byera Junior.[25] His son be-

came the Inspector of Mines, Broken Hill, and after enlisting for the 1939-45 War, the ex-soldier continued his In-spector of Mines career in the Armi-dale area.[26]

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Personal life

Mrs Florence Hadley with their son, Byera Had-ley Junior. ca.1905. Photo The Swiss Studios, Sydney. Image courtesy of Steve and Cathy Carter, Hadley family descendents.

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After 1897, Hadley worked from rooms in the Camden Buildings, 418 George Street, Sydney. The Sydney Morning Herald tender notices suggest that Hadley first worked as a speculative architect developing vacant parcels of land for “cottages” as well as “villas”. There seemed to be no shortage of work for his practice. By 1899, however, the 28-year old architect was celebrat-ing the Earl Beauchamp’s well-publi-cised opening of the Hadley-designed Botany Town Hall described in the press as “…a Town Hall which seems to have been well designed, and is a decided architectural feature of the borough. The building, which is in the Early Italian Renaissance style, occu-pies a site on the main road. […]”

“There are imposing entrances with broad flights of steps which form ap-proaches [to] both the municipal block and the post-office. […] The main hall of the building is on the first floor and is 71 ft in length by 42 ft in width.”[27] The Botany Town Hall commission has been described as the result of a competition but no records have been found to date to verify it.[28] The fol-lowing year, his office completed the Greenwich Congregational Church, 9 Carlotta Street, Greenwich, a small Parish Gothic slate-roofed church in brick with a capacity of 150 parishio-ners.[29] The press report states that the church was “Erected to designs by Mr. W. [sic] Hadley of George Street, the contractor being T. Nicholace of Willoughby.”

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Following these commercial-scale commissions, Hadley’s office began to receive substantial civic works in-cluding the three-storey Sydney Unit-ed Friendly Societies Dispensary and Medical Institute building in “Macqua-rie Street-south” (commemorative stone laid in 1902); the commission for the Willoughby Town Hall (opened by the Premier of NSW Sir John See) completed in 1903 and the Baumann Café (1904) in Pitt Street, opposite the entrance to the Strand Arcade next to Washington Soul’s drug store. The Pitt Street façade of Baumann’s “Model Café” is described in the press as presenting a “florid modern Renais-sance design in brick and stone. While no photographs have been found to

date, the extensive description of Bau-mann’s suggests that the café’s fit-out and engineering were the latest word in catering.[30] [31] [32]

It has not been possible to discover the employees of Hadley’s practice to date, but press reports and surviving documents indicate that he did not form associations or partnerships with other architects. There is no question, however, that the scale, complexity and quantity of the design, engineer-ing and specification work would have required a number of architects, engi-neers and draughting specialists. By 1905, Hadley was fluent in a number of 19th and early 20th century period revival styles and generally reserved

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Botany Town Hall. 1899. State Library of NSW. Sam Hood Collection Image no. 09917r.

his Gothic Revival and Romanesque Revival vocabulary for ecclesiastical work; employed variations of the Re-naissance Revival for medium scale commercial work; and used a more as-sertive Classical Revival expression for large-scale commercial commissions for the urban warehouses to the west of George Street in the city. Examples of Hadley’s large-scale ur-ban commercial structures include the 1907 former Aberdeen House (seven storey) at 204-206 Clarence Street; the 1908 Smith Copeland warehouse (four storey) at 144 Clarence Street (extending to 83-87 York Street) with later floors added by others and the 1916 Commerce Buildings (five storey) at 349-353 Sussex Street;

While a number of Byera Hadley’s commercial works are known and listed as heritage items in Local Gov-ernment Local Environmental Plans (LEPs), residential work was a very ac-tive part of his practice. Few domestic commissions have achieved heritage listings and those identified suggest a tendency toward an Arts-and-Crafts, bungalow or a Tudor Revival style. His most grand ecclesiastical work, on the other hand, is typically drawn from the Gothic Revival style and is exempli-fied by the original wing of the Wesley College, Sydney University (designed in 1916) and its 1919 chapel.[33] [34] His more modest commissions such as the 1900 Greenwich Congregation-al Church (Carlotta Street); the 1919

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Willoughby Town Hall. 1903. Demolished 1969. Willoughby City Library. Image no.6543792.

“George Smith Memorial Hall” (New-combe Street) of the Paddington Unit-ing Church, 395 Oxford Street and the 1928 Wesley Hall (Dover Road), Rose Bay mingle the Parish Gothic and the red brick associations of the Roman-esque Revival.[35] [36] [37]

Lecturer-in-ChargeWhile Hadley’s practice expanded, he maintained his part-time teaching as-sociations with the STC and continued to hone his drawing and presentation skills. Beginning in 1908, Hadley began to seek a more prominent profile in the architectural community.

A generous illustrated feature of Had-ley’s drawings of Edmund Blacket’s Anglican church, St John, the Evan-

gelist, Darlinghurst featured promi-nently over four pages in Art and Ar-chitecture. These drawings include perspectives, moulding details and a ground plan. They provide first hand examples of Byera Hadley’s visual-ization skills. As a teacher of “archi-tectural and trades drawing” a great deal would have been expected of his drawing style.[38] The following year, 1909, a perspective (dated 1908) of a Clarence Street warehouse for Smith Copeland and Co., was also exhibited in Art & Architecture.[39]

By 1911, Hadley was exhibiting his draw-ing work in the Institute of Architects NSW 4th Biennial “Exhibition of Archi-tectural Drawings”. His drawing (with the subject unfortunately unidenti-

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fied) appeared in “the warehouse sec-tion” alongside work by his competi-tors in the city warehouse genre. The Art & Architecture reviewer identifies the participants as Byera Hadley, Kent and Budden; Power and Adam; Slayter and Schiels; and McCredie and Ander-son in an exhibition where, according to the anonymous writer, “much good work was shown”.[40]

In the following year, a career op-portunity emerged. The Superinten-dent of the STC, Mr. J.W. Turner fell ill and Byera Hadley’s former class-mate James Nangle (1868-1941) was appointed Acting Superintendent [reference is made to Nangle’s trade training as a carpenter and bricklayer]. The retirement of Turner, followed by

Nangle’s advancement, left the archi-tecture Lecturer-in-Charge position vacant and, fifteen years after assum-ing his part-time teaching position at Sydney Technical College, Hadley ad-vanced to Lecturer-in-Charge of the architecture course.

From the 21st century, it is difficult to assess the breadth of Hadley’s contri-bution at the STC. His obituary in the STC publication Atelier, states “Under Mr. Hadley’s able and enthusiastic di-rection the school rapidly increased the range and efficiency of it’s teach-ing until finally […] [it was] acknowl-edged as one of the finest schools of architecture in the Empire”. While some of the STC’s reforms were the work of the well-regarded James Nan-

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Drawings. St Johns, Darlinghurst. 1907. Art and Architecture. September-October 1909

gle, O.B.E., Hadley had established the formal five-year architecture course at the STC by 1918. Eric Daniels notes that “… the new course was designed to fulfill the requirements of […] [the forthcoming Architects Registration] Act…”.[42] Spooner’s History of the School of Architecture and Building notes the passing of the Architects Registration Act (gazetted in 1922) coinciding with the first five-year ar-chitecture diplomas awarded in 1923.[43] Hadley is also credited with gain-ing Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) recognition of the STC course diploma. This gave post-1923 STC-trained architects exemption from the RIBA examinations.[44]

Hadley and his Advisory Board also supported the publication of the first Sydney Technical College School of Architecture Year Book 1928.[45] The heavily illustrated volume (selling for two shillings) featured reproductions of student works from 1926 and 1927. Subsequent volumes appeared in 1929, 1930 and 1931. The STC’s Year Book celebrated, publicized and af-firmed the status of the first gener-ation of graduates of the five-year education programme. They also gen-erously illustrate the earliest student works of the interwar generation of NSW architects.

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Smith, Copeland and Co., Art and Architecture. March-April 1909

Hadley’s greatest contribution to NSW architecture remains his insistence on the importance of travel in Australian architectural training. His involvement appears some years before his formal bequest for the Byera Hadley Travel-ling Scholarships.

A ledger maintained by the Board of Architects of NSW (Now NSW Archi-tects Registration Board) records a 1928 “Byera Hadley Scholarship for Interstate Study” of £25 for Duncan McPhee Smith (d.1987) of the STC and a 1929 Byera Hadley Scholarship for Richard Simpson, STC.[46] The awards ledger records two donations of £25 from Mr Hadley. The success of these two “interstate study” scholar-ships must have provided the catalyst

for the 1937 Byera Hadley bequest. Although he left the STC in 1927, Had-ley maintained his architectural prac-tice until his death in 1937.[47] Major commissions arising after his STC ap-pointment included the Methodist Girls School, Bowral (The Annesley School) (1923); the Colonial Mutual Building, 74 Pitt Street (1924); the Vickery Me-morial Chapel (1926), Leigh College, Newington (1927) and the Wesley Hall (1929), Rose Bay. [48] [49] [50]

Glimpses of Hadley’s characterByera Hadley’s foreword for the STC School of Architecture Year Book 1928 provides a rare statement from an ar-chitect and lecturer who avoided ap-pearing in print. An excerpt from his

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brief introduction suggests something of Hadley’s character as well as pro-viding a hint of the architectural con-cerns of the post-federation era. “[B]ecause of the changed conditions of modern practice,” Hadley writes, “the creation of a Sir Christopher Wren or a Welby Pugin, though not impossi-ble, is less likely today than in the past. Nevertheless, the value of men whose ability raises them above their fellows makes them natural leaders. However, no one man, or group of men can form a national style for their work. Our sol-diers, cricketers and footballers have already demonstrated the formation of a national character possessing such traits as courage and initiative. If our architects will add to these, at

least the three R’s of Design: Repose, Restraint and Refinement, our archi-tectural practice will surely express the foundation of a national style.”[51]

By the late 1920s, Hadley’s practice ap-pears to have slowed and by the mid-1930s, the STC-trained architect Os-mond Jarvis went to work for Hadley, later giving an interview to Paul-Alan Johnson about his experiences in the practice in 1936-1937.[52] “He [Hadley] was on his own and was then doing work for a prominent fam-ily named Cull. They were involved in all sorts of things but were also sup-porters of his church. I worked on some of the churches that Byera Had-ley designed and also did some work

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on Cull’s houses. […] [H]e had spells of sickness and couldn’t cope and only came in a couple of days a week and eventually went to hospi-tal and never left it. I think it may have been heart trouble but I am not sure. [He was] very softly spoken. I would say that he was very well read, and of course, he was getting on in years. It was amazing how much work he left to me. He never spoke of any family. [We were doing] some domestic work, but a lot of church work. I worked on refurbishing a church for him …”. Jarvis’s characterisation of Hadley as “softly spoken” also surfaces in his Atelier obituary. “Being of a retiring nature,” his anonymous memorialist

writes in 1938, “he was not easy to know intimately, but his qualities of sincerity and uprightness were obvi-ous to all who came in contact with him. Those who knew him intimately always benefited greatly by his advice which was always given in the direc-tion of truth…”.[53]

The Death of Byera HadleyWhen Hadley died in 1937 of circulato-ry disease, his will provided an annuity for his wife while establishing a trav-elling scholarship bequest of £10,000 for graduates of the Sydney Technical College and Sydney University to be administered by the Board of Archi-tects NSW. The news of the scholar-ship bequest excited considerable na-tional attention and was published in

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Hadley had established the formal five-year architecture course at the STC by 1918.

a number of out-of-state newspapers.[54] Hadley gave his “residuary estate” to the Permanent Trustees Co. on trust for the purpose of creating a Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship Fund. “He directed that the income there-from should be applied in perpetuity,” the Sydney Morning Herald reported, “to scholarships, to be awarded to stu-dents of architecture or graduates at the Sydney Technical College or Uni-versity of Sydney.”[55] The Sydney Morning Herald also re-ported that “Mr. Hadley gave £500 to Rita Haley, who had been his nurse, in recognition of her care for him, di-rected that a sum sufficient to yield

his widow an annuity of £200 be set aside, to fall eventually into residue, and gave his architectural library to East Sydney Technical College.” Had-ley also left Rita Haley “such of the furniture, pictures, and articles or per-sonal or household use or ornament as belong to me now situated in […] number 137 Livingstone Road, Mar-rickville.”[56] The estate was sworn for probate at £10,825. To date, noth-ing has emerged regarding Rita Haley or her relationship with Hadley.

Hadley was buried at the Woronora Cemetery and a gravestone in trachyte stone was executed under the direc-tion of Fowell, Mansfield and Maclur-can and after some delay, the stone was placed in 1950.[58]

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Hadley’s greatest contribu-tion to NSW architecture re-mains his insistence on the importance of travel in Aus-tralian architectural training.

By 1939, however, Hadley’s widow, Florence Debelle Hadley made an ap-plication to the Equity Court for finan-cial relief under the “Family Mainte-nance Act”. The press reported “Mrs. Hadley, who is now 67 applied for an increase of the provision made for her. Evidence was submitted that Mr. Hadley left his home many years ago. He made a small monthly payment to his wife, who in order to educate her son and maintain herself, trained as a nurse.”[59] The Judge, Justice Nicholas, was sym-pathetic to Mrs. Hadley’s plea and or-dered that she be paid £100 and that she receive “the net income of the es-tate (about £427 a year) for the rest of her life.” “The scholarship fund, it

was reported, would come into effect on Mrs. Hadley’s death.”[60] The Per-manent Trustees Co. and the Board of Architects (now the NSW Architects Registration Board) jointly managed the Byera Hadley estate (including letting, repairing and ultimately sell-ing properties held by the Trustees) until Mrs. Florence Hadley’s death in 1945 when the balance of the bequest could be realised.[61]

Extended negotiations with the Per-manent Trustees Co. regarding the estate, legal matters and the internal review of the “Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship Rules” continued until 1950 when the Board wrote that “The Award is to be made to the student and/or graduate who in the opinion

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The notable achievements of the award winners from the first, Bryce Mortlock (1951), to the recent winners, speak for themselves.

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of the Board gives promise of profit-ing most by study abroad, upon such evidence by way of competitions or otherwise as the Board may determine from time to time…” The list of scholarship recipients over the years includes many architects who have contributed enormously to the profession and the broader com-munity. This embraces such celebrated figures as Milo Dunphy, the 1953 recip-ient in whose passion for encouraging community awareness of environmen-tal issues resulted in the foundation of the Total Environment Centre and includes State, National and Interna-tional award-winning architects as well as State and National Presidents of the Australian Institute of Archi-

tects. Byera Hadley’s wishes have been satisfied by the Board’s desire to select architects based on their abili-ty for “profiting most” from the Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship”. The notable achievements of the award winners from the first, Bryce Mortlock (1951), to the recent winners, speak for themselves.

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[1] NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages. Byera Hadley, No.25435/1937. Died Marrickville NSW[2] Michael Bogle, PhD (RMIT) is a historian special-ising in the history of Australian architecture and design.[3] “The Late Mr Byera Hadley.” Atelier. July 1938, p.13.[4] Alexander E. Hadley date and place of death un-certain. Deceased by 1898.[5] Mary A. Hadley died in Marrickville NSW in 1904. NSW BDM, no. 13744/1904.[6] Anderson had more than six commissions from the Methodist church.[7] Uniting the Congregational, Methodist and Pres-byterian churches.[8] “Leigh College.” Sydney Morning Herald, 16 July 1927, p.9[9] NSW AIA Biographical Information files. Courte-sy Anne Higham.[10] Ray Herbert. “The History of Studley Park.” n.d. www.camdenhistory.org.au/ Studley%20Park.pdf. 7 July 2011.[11] “Board of Technical Education.” [annual exam-ination reports]. Sydney Morning Herald. Monday 23 January 1888, page 5.[12] Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday 21 January 1890, page 5.[13] “Sydney Technical College. Annual Presentation of Prizes.” Sydney Morning Herald. 25 March 1891. p.5.

[14] “Sydney Technical College. Annual Presentation of Prizes.” Sydney Morning Herald. 25 March 1891. p.5.[15] “Mr Byera Hadley.” The Cyclopedia of New South Wales. McCarron, Stewart and Co., 1907, p.429.[16] Notices. Sydney Morning Herald. 24 January 1899, page 7, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 Jan 1899, p.6.[17] Sydney Morning Herald, 16 July 1897, page 1.[18] Other dates are cited. Hadley’s “Application for Registration as an Architect” dated 1923 states that he commenced practice in 1893. NSW Architects Registration Board files.[19] NSW RAIA biographical files. He was on the In-stitute of Architects NSW Council from 1897-1906.[20] Florence’s father, Edward (d.1895) was head-master of the Superior Public School, Pyrmont and one of seven children.[21] “The World of Sport.” Sydney Morning Herald, 21 Nov 1892, p.3.[22] “Social.” Sydney Morning Herald. 20 Nov 1897, p.7.[23] “Marriages.” Sydney Morning Herald. 7 January 1899, p.1. Their marriage certificate 1898/006929 lists Hadley as resident at 17 Stanley Street, Wool-loomooloo and Debelle at Ellerbank, John Street, Petersham. In 1903, they were living in Holt Street, Petersham.[24] “Marriages.” Sydney Morning Herald. 7 January

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1899, p.1.[25] Information supplied by Steve and Cathy Car-ter, Hadley family descendents.[26] “Death in Sydney of Mrs F. Hadley.” Barrier Min-er. 26 June 1945, p.2. “Hadley on Holiday.” Barrier Miner. 6 February 1946, p.2.[27] “Earl Beauchamp at Botany.” Sydney Morning Herald. 14 July 1899, p.5.[28] “Mr Byera Hadley.” The Cyclopedia of New South Wales. McCarron, Stewart and Co., 1907, p.429 describes the Botany Town Hall commission as the result of a competition.[29] “Greenwich Congregational Church.” Sydney Morning Herald. 7 May 1900, page 3. Now known as the Greenwich Uniting Church in use as a hall, 9 Car-lotta St., Greenwich (Lane Cove LEP 2009, item 119[30] “Friendly Societies Dispensary.” Sydney Morn-ing Herald. 29 September 1902, page 3. Hadley did a number of jobs for the Friendly Societies network.[31] “Development of Willoughby.” Sydney Morning Herald. 3 September 1903, page 5. The Premier de-scribed the building as “one of the finest buildings of the kind in Australia”.[32] “A Model Café.” Sydney Morning Herald. 22 March 1904, page 3.[33] “New Wesley College.” Sydney Morning Herald. 29 January 1916, page 17.[34] “Wesley College. A New Chapel.” Sydney Morn-ing Herald. 2 June 1919, page 10.[35] “General Notes.” Sydney Morning Herald. 6

August 1919, page 7. “ Mr. B. Hadley, architect, has plans in hand for a memorial school hall to be built at Newcombe-street, Paddington.”[36] “George Smith Memorial Hall.” Sydney Morning Herald. 12 May 1920, page 8. This hall is described by the journalist as “Romanesque”.[37] “Rose Bay Methodist Church.” Sydney Morning Herald. 4 October 1929, page 7.[38] Byera Hadley. “Church of St John the Evange-list.” Art & Architecture. Vol.VI:5, September-Octo-ber, 1909, pps.169-171, includes frontispiece.[39] “Warehouse, Clarence Street.” Art & Architec-ture. Vol.VI:2, March-April 1909, p.53.[40] “Exhibition of Architectural Drawings.” 4th Bi-ennial Exhibition. Art & Architecture, vol.VIII:6, No-vember-December 1911, pps.467-471.[41] “Mr Byera Hadley.” [in Vice Regal] Sydney Morning Herald.Thursday 30 July 1914.[42] Eric Daniels. A History of the Faculty of Archi-tecture. UNSW, 1989, p.2-3, citing Peter Spooner. History of the School of Architecture and Building. 2:3, 1957.[43] Walter H. Morris received the first numbered 5-Year diploma in 1923. The Architects Act 1921, no.8 was assented to 28 November 1921 with a date of commencement of 1 August 1922.[44] Eric Daniels. A History of the Faculty to Ar-chitecture. UNSW, 1989, p.2-3, citing Peter Spooner. History of the School of Architecture and Building. 2:3, 1957.

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[45] Year Book. 1928. Being a selection of the work of students of the School during the years 1926 and 1927. The School of Architecture, Sydney Technical College. STC Architectural Club, 1928. Hadley is de-scribed in the Year Book as Emeritus.[46] “Awards, Scholarships, Grants…”. Board of Architects NSW. First entry 1924. Unpaginated. McPhee Smith was to study “town planning” in Ad-elaide and Simpson examined “street architecture” in Melbourne. The August 1949 NSW RAIA Bulletin noted that £130 had also been raised at the STC for a Byera Hadley Testimonial Fund in 1927. This seems to have followed his retirement from the school.[47] Eric Daniels. A History of the Faculty to Archi-tecture. UNSW, 1989, p.3.[48] “A Girls High School.” Sydney Morning Herald. 21 November 1923, page 11.[49] “Tenders.” Sydney Morning Herald. 9 April 1924, page 8.[50] “Leigh College. Ebenezer Vickery Memorial Chapel.” Sydney Morning Herald. 10 May 1926, page 12 and “Leigh College.” Sydney Morning Herald. 16 July 1927, page 9.[51] Year Book. 1928. Being a selection of the work of students of the School during the years 1926 and 1927. The School of Architecture, Sydney Technical College. STC Architectural Club, 1928, p.7.[52] “Osmond Jarvis” Interview. Paul-Alan Johnson and Susan Lorne-Johnson, editors. Architects of the Middle Third. Interviews with NSW Architects who

commenced practice in the 1930s and 1940s. School of Architecture, UNSW. vol. 4 (1997), p.140-141[53] “The Late Mr Byera Hadley.” Atelier. July 1938, p.13.[54] “£10,000 for Scholarship in Architecture.” Northern Standard (Darwin), 22 March 1938, page 8[55] “Architect’s Will.” Sydney Morning Herald. 15 March 1938, page 7.[56] Codicil to the Last Will of […] Byera Hadley. 20 January 1937. [Copy in Board of Architects, Byera Hadley file.].[57] “Death Notices.” Sydney Morning Herald. No-vember 27, 1937. Hadley was living at 137 Livingstone Road, Marrickville.[58] 9 November 1950. Letter to RAIA from Fow-ell, Mansfield and Maclurcan, in Board of Architects NSW, Byera Hadley file.[59] “Late Mr. B. Hadley’s Will.” Sydney Morning Her-ald. 6 April 1939, page 5.[60] “Late Mr. B. Hadley’s Will.” Sydney Morning Herald. 6 April 1939, page 5.[61] “Death Notices.” “Florence Hadley. June 25 at her sister’s residence, 206 Raglan Street, Mosman.” Sydney Morning Herald 30 June 1945.[62] “Warehouse, Clarence Street.” Art & Architec-ture. Vol.VI:2, March-April 1909, p.53.[63] NSW Public School Teachers’ Federation Vali-dating and Enablign Act Act No. 59, 1932.www.aus-tlii.edu.au/au/ legis/nsw/num_act/nsw.7 July 2011.

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